Higher Education Salaries Presentation

Impacts of Education and Demographics on Mid/Early Career Pay

Jonathon Purvis

University Of Scranton

Research Question

  • Inflation is a popular topic and affects everyone
  • Our best weapon against inflation is understanding what factors affect making more money
  • We would like to know impacts of tuition costs, institutional type, STEM percentage, total enrollment, state, and student demographics on mid/early career pay.

Tuition Cost Data

name state state_code type degree_length room_and_board in_state_tuition in_state_total out_of_state_tuition out_of_state_total
Aaniiih Nakoda College Montana MT Public 2 Year NA 2380 2380 2380 2380
Abilene Christian University Texas TX Private 4 Year 10350 34850 45200 34850 45200

Tuition Income Data

name state total_price year campus net_cost income_lvl
Piedmont International University NC 20174 2016 On Campus 11475 0 to 30,000
Piedmont International University NC 20174 2016 On Campus 11451 30,001 to 48,000

Diversity Data

name total_enrollment state category enrollment
University of Phoenix-Arizona 195059 Arizona Women 134722
University of Phoenix-Arizona 195059 Arizona American Indian / Alaska Native 876

Salary Data

rank name state_name early_career_pay mid_career_pay make_world_better_percent stem_percent
1 University of Alabama in Huntsville Alabama 71000 127000 57 44
2 Auburn University Alabama 67500 123300 50 32

Salary Variables

Tuition Cost Variables

Tuition Income Variables

Alumni Percentages Variables

Total Enrollment

Diversity

Variable Relationships

Relationships (Continued)

Relationships Final

Models

Models Results (pt. 1)

Model Results (pt 2.)

Conclusions

Acknowledgements

  • Data sourced from publicly available datasets.
  • Code and data available on GitHub.

References